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RE: somewhat urgent



On 16-May-2000 abs1nthe wrote:
> I'm writing a rather long essay about open source and free software.
> it's a legal article.  i wanted to know about the copyright issue for
> debian distributions.  i know you include a copyright notice for each
> distribution, but do you also include a list of who made what contributions?
> i am under the impression that you do not.  if you do not, do you maintain
> a list of who did what to the code?
> 

in each package is a file called 'copyright' it contains the name of the Debian
person who does the packaging and the info about the upstream author -- their
email, URL, etc.



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